Handbag frame



June 12, 1951 5 GIORDANQ 2,556,874

HANDBAG FRAME Filed NOV. 6, 1947 A TTORNEY Patented June 12, 1951 UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE HANDBAG FRAME I Salvatore Giordano, Forest Hills N. Y. Application November 6, 1947, Serial No.,784,338

This invention relates to handbag frames such as are used in the manufacture of womens handbags.

It is the object of this invention to provide a tubular handbag frame comprising a pair of frame members with tubular outer portions and which are mirror images of each other, having novel structural features.

These and. other advantageous objects, which will appear from the drawings and description hereinafter, are illustrated in the drawings, embodying a practical form of the invention, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary, perspective view of a handbag embodying a frame of my invention,

Fig. 2 is an elevational, fragmentary, vertical sectional view thereof, taken on line 22 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is an end elevational view thereof, taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the frame member, partly broken, and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary, side elevational view of a handbag having a frame embodying my invention.

As shown in the drawings, the tubular frame embodying my invention comprises the frame sections l'fi, Iii which are mirror images of each other. For the sake of simplicity, the reference numbers of frame section H) with prime marks added thereto have been used with regard to the corresponding parts of frame section ll].

The tubular frame section Ill is provided with a bagging channel member ll medially pendent therefrom and outwardly offset from the line l8 which marks the meeting point of the frame sections l0, l when in their closed position (as shown in Fig. 2). The channel H is the bagging portion of the frame section and comprises a relatively long inner wall l2, which is substantially aligned with the longitudinal center of the tubular frame Iii and is pendent therefrom, and an outer wall [A of lesser height than the inner wall l2 spaced therefrom and connected thereto by the edge portion l3. The free edge l of the outer wall IE. defines, with the frame section l0, and the inner wall l2, a pocket l6 for the reception of the handbag material I! which may be clamped therein between walls l2, M of bagging channel H, or secured to said channel in any other desired or convenient manner.

By this arrangement, tubular frame sections Ill, I9 when in closed position, will be in continuous longitudinal abutment at IS, with the bagging channels I l, l l united to the lower ends 2 Claims. (Cl. 150-29) of the frame sections and pendent therefrom at positions offset outwardly of the point of abutment l8. Frame section Ill i slotted as at l9 adjacent the free outer end thereof. The free ends 20, ill of the frame sections are directed toward each other in overlapping relation, with a rivet El passed therethrough or otherwise secured together, see Figs. 1 and 3, pivotally securing the frame sections together at their outer ends.

The channels ll may be provided with corner reenforcing means, such as the reenforcing tab 22 shown in Fig. 4. The frame section may be providedwith any desired or convenient interengaging latch means, such as knobs 23 conventionally illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 5, or with any other suitable or desired interengaging means.

While the frame sections l0, l0 have been illustrated in the drawings as being of generally circular cross-section, such illustration is only for the purpose of exemplifying a practical application of the invention; said frame sections may be of any desired non-circular cross-section.

It will be noted that by the invention described, it is possible to compress and distort the channel portion ll of the frame members in bagging the material ll to any desired degree, without altering the true lines of the tubular frames I8, l0. Thus, the bag frame members will be of standard symmetry and beauty, and the handbag material ll appears to be held directly within and pendent from the tubular frame. This end, as above noted, is attained by the novel structural features of the frame members Ill, H). The bag frame is sturdy and durable; the finished bag incorporating the same is of standard neat and finished appearance, and of exceptional strength.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A handbag frame comprising a pair of frame sections, each section being of unitary construction and comprising a tubular main body portion which is exposed in the completed bag, and a bagging channel member integral with and medially pendant from one side of said body portion which is concealed in the completed bag, each frame section bagging channel member comprising a relatively long inner wall and an outer wall of less height than the inner wall and an edge portion of substantially lesser length than half of the thickness of said tubular main body portion, said edge portion connecting the walls together in spaced relation to define therewith a pocket opening beneath the tubular main body portion for the reception of handbag material to be clamped in said pocket, said tubular body portions being so proportioned as to extend substantially past the edge portions of the bagging channel members so as to be in substantial alignment with the bag material positioned in the channels in the completed bag, said frame sections having leg portions and free ends on said leg portions directed toward each other in overlapping relation at right angles to the axial plane of the leg portions and pivotally secured together in that position, each free end being integral with and extending from the side of said tubular main body portion opposite that formin said bagging channel member.

2. A handbag frame as set forth in claim. 1, said leg portions being slotted at their ends and being bent past said slots out of their tubular cross-sectional plane to define said free ends of flat form.

SALVATORE GIORDANO.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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